The Future is very Bright: Offense Edition

H'ville, Tn - With the pitching staff and bullpen all taken care the Hendersonville Front Office continued it's assault on the league by re-signing the core group of guys that have won 223 games over the last 2 seasons.  This time around Hays and the crew focused on the offense.

Tommy Green

 Name: Tommy Green
Pos: 1B
Age: 26
Local Pop: Very Popular
National Pop: Popular
2012 Salary: $12.5M
Extension: $31.5M over 3-yrs ($10.5M/yr)
Highlights: 2010 MVP, Career .319 avg, .399 OBP, .925 OPS. Averages 26 HR, 103 RB in 5 full seasons

John Prowse

Name: John Prowse
Pos: RF
Age: 27
Local Pop: Very Popular
National Pop: Very Popular
2012 Salary: $10.5M
Extension: $30.0M over 3-yrs ($10.0M/yr)
Highlights: Career .313 avg, .395 OBP, .891 OPS, averages 20 HR, 95 RBI in 2 full seasons

Pedro Valdez

Name: Pedro Valdéz
Pos: 2B
Age: 26
Local Pop: Popular
National Pop: Popular
2012 Salary: $6.0M
Extension: $18.0M over 3-yrs ($6.0M/yr)
Highlights: only has 255 career gms.  Has a .271 career avg and .766 OPS.  Tons of potential.



Locking up Team Captain Tommy Green was the first and most important piece to the continual success of the Hitmen.  Prowse came over last year in a highly contraversay trade.  Prowse is touted as a top 10 hitter and was proving that in a very hitter friendly park in Alaska, but once he arrived in H'ville he turned into a AA bench player.  The front office is hoping that his horrible stats in H'ville last season was a fluke, hence the 3-yr extention. 2B Pedro Valdez came over in same trade as Prowse and was hitting .290/7/28/.374/.839 in Alaska and showed promise of a breakout year, but turned out to suck balls once he got in to H'ville.  A dominating spring training though has perked up the front offices attention and is the only reason an extension was offered.